| NOUN | a barbette | barbettes |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- She was a barbette ship, an ancestor of the modern battleship with the main battery mounted in open barbettes on armored rotating platforms, in contrast to the heavy self-contained turrets more common to the period, in favor of which the progress of the design of modern battleships would soon abandon the barbette design.
- De Russy was credited with inventing the barbette depressing gun carriage.
- The 15-inch Rodman guns were mounted on both types of barbette carriage.
- It mounted two 10-inch Breech Loading (BL) guns, one on an Elswick Ordnance Company barbette mounting, the other on a Royal Carriage Department barbette mounting.
- Besides the tail barbette, additional armament was housed in the nose.
- A turret is a rotating weapon platform, strictly one that crosses the armour of whatever it is mounted on with a structure called a barbette (on ships) or basket (on tanks) and has a protective structure on top (gunhouse).
- When this meaning of the word "turret" started being used at the beginning of the 1860s, turrets were normally cylindrical. Barbettes were an alternative to turrets; with a barbette the protection was fixed, and the weapon and crew were on a rotating platform inside the barbette.
- The barbettes are gathered up on both sides facing the sea.
- Shipboard barbettes were primarily used in armoured warships - starting in the 1860s during a period of intense experimentation with other mounting systems for heavy guns at sea.
- The ships had belt armour of [...] , [...] barbette armour and [...] turret armour.
- The ship had a belt armour of [...] , [...] barbette armour and turret armour.
- The barbette armor was [...] thick. The unarmored portions of their sides were protected by [...] iron plates.
- thick between 'A' and 'Y' barbettes and thinned to [...] towards the ship's ends, but did not reach either the bow or the stern.
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